What is the worst characteristic in a leader?
I was asked this question recently by a friend of mine who works for a formerly state-owned utility organisation in Scandinavia. He was about to recruit for a senior leadership position and felt stifled by a legacy culture within the organisation where length of service traditionally opened the door for more senior roles rather than merit or even more seldom – showing a high potential as a future leader.
My friend felt that the recruits […]
The ability to create personalised learning experiences, based on employee profiles, will revolutionise L&D, as featured on Training Journal.
Four key trends are set to transform the effectiveness of learning and development in organisations:
First, having undertaken job analysis reviews and validation studies, today’s employers now have a far greater understanding of the skills, knowledge and behaviours that are required to perform well in each specific role.
Second, more data is now available about employees than ever before, in terms of their personality, experience, […]
OnTrack were recently approached by an International Agricultural Co-operative, to have an initial chat about a possible global change management project.
The group had some key objectives including;
Become more confident and capable at leading and managing the change process, at both a strategic and regional/local level
Engage with their teams from the start and communicate the reasons for change, securing buy-in and delivering change effectively
Move away from a ‘silo’ mentality, helping to support and maintain a “one company” culture
Ensure that their Business […]
OnTrack International won the award for Best Global Learning & Development Company at the 2017 HR & Training Awards organised by the global business publication Corporate Vision (CV) Magazine.
OnTrack International won the award for Best Global Learning & Development Company at the 2017 HR & Training Awards organised by the global business publication Corporate Vision (CV) Magazine.
The HR & Training Awards honour companies that meet the highest standards of productivity and performance and they recognise innovation and outstanding achievement. The […]
Less Training more learning
Thank you for all those that came over for a chat at the World of Learning and listened to our CEO Kevin and our client Garrick, from HSBC, talk about the ‘Future of Learning’.
We gave some insight into our thoughts about learning becoming more personalised and adaptable for us as individuals not just the organisations we work for, and we shared how our thinking is being put into practice in the workplace. We believe learning will be […]
Hear the latest on The Future of Learning and how HSBC are embracing it.
OnTrack are excited to exhibit at World of Learning next month on the 17th & 18th October. We will be in the exhibition hall on both days at stand D110 so make sure you drop by to receive your free Digital Health check! Take part in our survey on the stand to be included in the published report and most importantly be sure to come and say hello!
OnTrack Seminar Session
Wednesday […]
Good planning and high production values will help you to create engaging bite-sized learning videos as featured on Training Journal.
Online video has become the world’s favourite means of learning. With YouTube, Vimeo, TED Talks and other sites, we now have a vast array of options to meet our information (and entertainment) needs on any device, whenever and wherever we want.
Statistics show that 55% of people watch videos online every day – and more than 80% of senior executives now watch […]
We regularly hear of shortening attention span, increasingly pressured time constraints, resulting in bitesize…everything. “Busyness” has become a status symbol, the busier you are the more important you are. It’s easy to become busy, but are you being effective?
We live in a world where everything has been reduced in size, or time. Take books for example, now available in Audio format, a podcast series, and even to the extent where full businesses exists, such as GetAbstract, where books are summarised […]
Why Are Face To Face Interactions Dying Out?
When I was recently talking to a client she mentioned that their learning strategy would not be including face to face training anymore and instead they would be adopting more digital learning.
“Why?” I asked…
Her answer was this: “We don’t see quick results from face to face interactions. They are too costly and we can’t really afford to have people out of the business for a couple of days. We should be adopting more […]
“Leadership is essentially a cultural activity – it is suffused with values, beliefs, language, rituals and artefacts.”
Written by Raymond Lynn CEO of Fair Football
Open up any Cross-Cultural training manual, watch any Intercultural management video, or simply listen to a seasoned trainer, and one theme will consistently emerge; being an effective leader in one culture does not automatically make you an effective leader in all cultures. This notion is usually followed by the terrifically understated idea that leadership is “important”. Leadership […]
In these times of political and economic change, and for some companies the additional expense of the apprenticeship levy, making the most of your learning budget is high on all L&D Professionals agenda. So if you’re looking to invest your money wisely over the next financial year, here are some pointers to help you maximise the return on your investment…..
Plan and prioritise
The critical factor in deciding what and how to spend your budget should start with a thorough needs analysis. […]
There were many things that made the news from Cannes film festival this year, writes Bradley Williams, but one item in particular got a lot of attention; filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Virtual Reality installation titled Carne y Arena. Iñárritu is best known as the award winning director of Oscar successes The Revenant and Birdman, so his delve in to the use of such an emerging technology is bound to make headlines. Carne y Arena was a fully immersive 360-degree sensory […]
Our CEO Kevin Johnson and Pascale Goy, Head of Learning & Development at CERN discuss how to prove ROI to the business in this HR Grapevine article.
OnTrack have a brand new infographic highlighting the fantastic results of our latest client survey. See below some of the great feedback we received from our fabulous clients.
Do you have any comments to share with OnTrack? If so, contact us at info@ontrackinternational.com.
*As quoted on Deep Insight & B2B International.
On 23rd May we teamed up with Maria Franzoni to arrange an exciting evening filled with some very accomplished speakers dealing with change in the uncertain times we live in. Here you can see a quick recap of the evening:
More about the speakers…
Bruno Marion – Be Future Proof
Bruno Marion is a futurist, an expert on global trends and innovation. Bruno will share a mind blowing, paradigm shifting, immediately actionable and sustainable framework to make you thrive in uncertainty and create new breakthroughs.
Tim Reid – Turbulent Times… […]
Technological change and advancement is increasing every day. It has never been as fast as it is today, and tomorrow it will be even quicker. With this massive advancement comes a whole host of exciting new possibilities. Everyone can be connected, everything can be done quicker, and the way that we live our lives has been revolutionised. Many people, including myself, couldn’t fathom a world without today’s digital culture, but it does lead to wonder, what really is the effect […]
Multinational employers can build a global talent pool by delivering consistent learning that’s tailored to the needs of local offices, says Cecilia Westin Curry as featured in Training Journal.
With the rise of globalisation, more multinational employers are looking to standardise their leadership competencies and corporate values worldwide. This has created a new demand to deliver consistent global learning programmes, rather than buying separate training courses piecemeal from different providers in different markets.
Global learning not only saves the time involved in coordinating the activities […]
On the 11th April our CEO Kevin Johnson was invited to speak at the global conference for the International Federation of Training and Development Organisations and Society for Human Resource Management in Oman. In front of an international audience of around 400, and the Sultan of Oman, Kevin shared his thoughts on The Future of Learning.
“For many years we have been trying to encourage individuals and managers to take more responsibility for development, but with sporadic results. With the new digital […]
This post is written by David Kermode who is the former editor of BBC Breakfast Channel 5 News, and ITV Daybreak and has worked as a consultant with the BBC World Service. He is now a communications consultant and senior-level media trainer, working with On Track International.
A month ago, Oscar Munoz, the CEO of United Airlines, was honoured as PR Week ‘Communicator of the Year’. How long a month feels in modern media.
What happened on Flight […]
Brexit, Trump, years of uncertainty… ah you’ve got to laugh. Ideally, big, sincere, belly laughs.
Guest Blog from Tim Reid, Award Winning Comedy Writer and Innovation expert
Turbulent times throw up serious challenges and big opportunities. And that means the need to think differently, and have big, bold ideas, whether that’s new ways of working, new products or services, or new cut-through communications ideas. So the importance of creative thinking and the ability to generate bigger, better ideas has never been greater. […]
We are now heading at great speed into spring. For many of us our New Year’s resolutions will be a distant memory – maybe already forgotten or even perhaps accomplished! One of our New Year’s Resolutions at OnTrack was to look at learning and development in a creative and different way. This led us down the track of sponsoring a highly regarded, accomplished, international Italian horseman – Daniele Bizzarro. We decided it would be interesting to look generally at how […]
Managing when the spotlight is on
We live in a world of expectations; actions are taken as a consequence of the result, somebody is made a scape goat, somebody has to be made an example of, somebody has to be blamed, and or somebody has to be seen to take the punishment. Why? Finding a person to apportion blame and punishment to will not change the result, but it will satisfy the expectations of others!
Regardless of where we work, what […]
As this week is National Apprenticeship Week we thought it would be a good time to share with you our 5 top facts about the Apprenticeship Levy. From Spring 2017 the way the government funds apprenticeships in England is changing – are you ready?
L&D practitioners can benefit professionally and personally from a greater understanding of occupational psychology, as featured on Training Journal.
Every L&D practitioner aims to develop individuals and teams, so they can perform better and positively contribute to the organisation’s results. A growing number are realising that an understanding of the psychology of human behaviour – and how it applies in organisations – can help them to achieve their goals and get the best out of people. Some L&D teams think […]
Maybe leadership blind spots are to blame…
Have you ever wondered what you don’t see? All those things that we are blind to because of our ‘norms’? Our brains have about 10 million pieces of information hitting them at any one time, it would be impossible to filter and sift through all of this information without our biases. Out of these 10 million, only about 7 are properly processed, so you have to wonder, what are those 9,999,993 bits of information […]
OnTrack International are announced on the Training companies watch list for third year running!
OnTrack International, the global learning consultancy, has been endorsed as one of the world’s leading providers of leadership development, for the third year running, by the US learning portal Training Industry.
As a service to buyers of leadership development, Training Industry continually monitors the global learning marketplace and it conducts an annual, independent analysis of hundreds of leadership training providers. It then publishes a Leadership Training Watch List […]
As every HR team knows, training high flyers is a big challenge. But when those you’re developing have to compete in three demanding disciplines – including ‘flying’ over fences as tall as actor Daniel Radcliffe (1.65m) and the length of a small car (3m) – the challenge is far greater. We’re talking here about the very special horses that take part in equestrian eventing.
OnTrack International is proudly sponsoring a talented and charismatic Italian eventing rider and trainer named Daniele Bizzarro, whose […]
Arqiva, the UK’s communications infrastructure and media services company, have provided infrastructure and broadcast transmission facilities to the UK and Ireland for over 90 years. As one of the most important companies in communications, Arqiva own and manage some of the UK’s critical infrastructure for TV, radio, digital and mobile phones.
Having provided the transmission capability for the BBC’s first radio broadcast in 1922, Arqiva know the importance of impeccable service and needing the employees to deliver it.
Graduate Development Programme
In September […]
The purpose of the project was to develop the sales management focus in the competitive world of modern banking. The ability to actual lead a team of professionals in a manner that actually liberates their performance potential and maintains that positive, involving climate at that same time has been the challenge thrown down to management teams since the beginning of time.
Client Challenge
How do you get the results necessary to satisfy the stakeholders and the atmosphere that encourages the team members? […]
One of our clients recently raised an issue with regards to working in cross-cultural and global teams. The concern was that they had a UK team being managed by a German leader. Some members of the team were expressing frustration that the German leader should be less ‘German’ and ‘more like us’
My colleagues and I were discussing what may have been at the core of the claim. Was it a personality trait? Was it poor communication […]
